Friday, September 12, 2014

I've rediscovered how much I enjoy
writing things out long-hand, and I'd like
to get back into journaling regularly. But
I've also noticed that I tend not to
transcribe things into blog posts. It's been
over a year since I blogged!

Then I suddenly remembered that
"smart pens" were a thing. So I googled
what the current state of the world was
for smart pens and ended up convincing
myself to buy a Livescribe 3.

(I just paused to see what the OCR
software made of my natural, unaltered
handwriting. Holy shit! Those first two
paragraphs above it made zero errors
into transcription! It didn't catch the
paragraph-break the way I would have
typed it manually, but I'll forgive it. It even correctly placed a comma I had gone back in and added after I'd kept on writing. It did miss an apostrophe, but
I suppose that one was nearly non-
existent. As for underlined words, it just
ignored it entirely. Which seems fair.
Smileys confuse it, though.)

Who Am I?

I'm a programmer and conlanger. I use this blog mainly to record the daily happenings in my life, but I occasionally post about other topics; see the categories list for an idea of what I sometimes write about.